Another Finish - Ric Rac

Since Wednesday was a snow day and I didn't have class, or any assignments for class, I spent the night finishing up Ric Rac.  This one has been basted for too long so it was time to get it finished. It is a small quilt., about 40 x 46 inches, so it was easy to quilt and bind in a couple hours.

We still have snow, which is even rarer than getting the snow.

Usually when snow comes it is gone within a couple hours.

Since the roads aren't too bad it is fun for it to still be here.

 I did some simple quilting on this one.  Trying to figure out what to quilt on it was the main hold up for this UFO.  I was trying to come up with some super fancy quilting for it, when I should have realized that sometimes meandering is just what is needed. Particularly if it is going to be a quilt that gets used a lot, which this one will.

This is my second finish for the 2014 Q1 Finish A-Long

and 4th finished quilt of the year.

I love all the icicles! They are so pretty with the sun shining on them.

 There wasn't much wind when I was taking pictures, so it was actually nice to be out.
My fingers didn't get cold while holding the camera.

 I sure love the "fluffiness" of our birds in the winter.

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A Finish Just in Time For Snow

We have snow and ice!  Very seldom do we ever get snow and when we do everything shuts down.

They canceled school yesterday in anticipation of snow.

We could have had a perfectly good half day if we wanted to.

but to be on the safe side they closed everything.

Freezing rain started last night around 5 o'clock yesterday.

I went out to take a few pictures and then enjoyed the rest of the evening in my

sewing room working on my Christmas pinwheel quilt.

I finished the quilting and binding this morning and the dogs and I went out to do a photo shoot in the snow.

Belle likes to eat the snow.

Dean was a happy camper and running all over.

We even saw Roscoe, the neighborhood cat.

I never thought I'd have a quilt with snow in the background.  I'm so excited!

I love seeing quilts in the snow.

I wasn't going to put any quilting in the white part of the pinwheels but as I was about to add the binding I decided they needed a little something, so they all got some squiggles.

School was canceled again today ...

and tomorrow for good measure.

That includes my college class tonight.

I am ok with that.  :)

Notice the choice of foot wear for southern snow.

This is my third finished quilt of the year.
It is also my January finish for A Lovely Year of Finishes, - My goal setting photo can be found here.
It is also my first finish for Quarter One of the 2014 Finish A-Long.




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2014 Finish Along Q1

I did pretty good with my Q4 Finish Along for 2013.  I got 6 out of 12 complete and even though I didn't get 12 done, it was nice to have 12 on my list.  I am a fickle crafter, which is one of the main reasons I have so many UFO's to begin with, so it was nice to be able to pick and choose which finish I wanted to work on.  For this quarter I am going to list 12 again.  A few from last quarter that didn't get on the list and a few new ones.

1. My Christmas Pinwheel Quilt.
I'm also putting this one as my January goal for "A Lovely Year of Finishes".
You can see all the other January goals for "A Lovely Year of Finishes" at this link party.

2. My new Christmas Quilt top.  Not sure what to call this one yet.
It went from a pile of strips last quarter to a quilt top.

It also got basted last quarter but didn't quite make it to the machine.

3. My Christmas Dresden Quilt.
These Dresden plates also came from the pile of strips from Q4 last year.

4. Christmas Table Topper - I cut out fabric to make two of these in 2011 - one for a friend and one for me.  The one for me never got finished.

If I get these four projects done this quarter, I should definitely be ready for Christmas by December.  :)

5.  My Slide Show quilt.  It is already basted, so I might as well put this one on the list again too.

6. The Mondo bag is back for this quarter again too.  I really want to get this one done this quarter.

7. Ric Rac Quilt.  It has been basted for quite a while now.

8. My Baby Cakes Quilt - This was a kit from Connecting threads and is made from flannel.

9.  Wild Thing Quilt - Another kit from Connecting Threads.  

 10.  Doc Schnibbles Quilt Top

11. Dimestore Schnibbles Quilt Top

12.  Jewel Box quilt.  It still needs a border and then it is ready for quilting.

  That is four projects a month.  Some are small and some are big, but most are almost complete so I should have a good chance to get at least half done, if not more, for this quarter

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